PRESTON MARTIN
"CAPTIVATING" - THE NEW YORKER
significant other
by Joshua Harmon, directed by Stephen Brackett, Geffen Playhouse
"Harmon indirectly introduces the subject of internalized homophobia through an interaction with Evan (Preston Martin, in one of several humorously overstated roles)..."
The Los Angeles Times
"Stoker plays three roles exceedingly well, differentiating between them, as does Preston Martin who plays both straight and gay, having great fun with the queenish office mate."
Broadway World
"It’s a theatrical treat to see actors Preston Martin and John Garet Stoker morph into their three characters each."
Los Angeles Daily News
streepshow!
by Jay Stull, The Tank, The Connelly Theater
"Preston Martin and Claire Rothrock make a meal out of their impressions: He cuts a sleek knife-sharp figure and delivers Miranda [Priestley]'s lines in a threatening stage whisper..."
The New York Times
PIRATE LA DEE DA
by Jennifer Crittenden, Gabrielle Allan and Nate Weida, Atlantic Theatre Company
"...the hilarious Preston Martin..."
The New York Times
KASPAR Hauser: a foundling's opera
by Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney, The Flea
"Preston Martin is captivating in the title role, imbuing his Kaspar with the freaky allure of a German Edward Scissorhands."
The New Yorker
"Martin's wraithlike Kaspar -- so innocent, so trusting, so cruelly treated -- suffers like some silent-movie virgin at the whimsical moods of his public."
Variety
"There are wonderful performances from everyone, especially the incredibly detailed performance by Martin as Kaspar."
Broadway World
I WANNA DESTROY YOU
by Joshua Conkel, At Hand Theater Company, Theatre Row
"The only person who consistently connects to his style is Preston Martin in a fabulously committed performance as [Jim] the wedding planner’s assistant. Imagine Brad Pitt’s look in the long-ago “Johnny Suede” transformed by supreme confidence, an aggregation of chic-urban-gay stereotypes as triumph."
The New York Times
"Brittle Daphne has her own assistant, Jim- also her best friend and roommate- played as a certain type of hyper-stylish New Yorker with vivid glee by Preston Martin."
New York Theatre Review
"Preston Martin is extra-funny as the over-the-top queeny Jim, a master of the vocal fry."
Broadway World
YOU ON THE MOORS NOW
by Jaclyn Backhaus, Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, HERE Arts Center
"Preston Martin's equally excitable Mr. Darcy (almost certainly homosexual in Backhaus' retelling) elicits consistent laughs."
Theatremania
"A few performances certainly stand out...Preston Martin captures the hilarious over-the-top properness of Mr. Darcy perfectly."
Charged
"Preston Martin adds a sniveling little boy quality to Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice, I have never seen that character portrayed this way and yet Martin commits to it with such ferocity that it won me over."
New York Theatre Review
"Martin brought a colorful heightened hysteria to Mr. Darcy that was nothing short of scene stealing."
Theater in the Now